Collected Works of V. I. Lenin - Vol. 13 - From Marx to Mao

538JulyAugust 1 (14)August 5-10(18-23)Between August5 and 10 (18and 23)August after11 (24)August 22(September 4)Between August31 and September7 (September13 and 20)AugustAugust-SeptemberAugust-OctoberAugust-DecemberBeginning ofSeptemberTHE LIFE AND WORK OF V. I. LENINLenin prepares the second edition of his book TheDevelopment of Capitalism in Russia, to which hemakes additions and writes a preface.In a letter to A. M. Gorky Lenin invites him totake part in the proceedings of the Stuttgart InternationalSocialist Congress and notifies Gorky thatthe C.C. of the R.S.D.L.P. has granted him aconsultative voice.Lenin takes part in the proceedings of the StuttgartCongress; he is elected to the committee fordrafting a resolution “On Militarism and InternationalConflicts”.Lenin calls and holds a conference of Left Socialists,delegates of the Stuttgart Congress.Lenin returns to Kokkala (Finland) from Stuttgart.Lenin writes his article “Notes of a Publicist” forthe symposium Voice of Life, defending Bolsheviktactics in regard to the Third Duma and the Dumaparties.The symposium Voice of Life edited by Lenin andcontaining his articles “In Memory of Count Heyden”and “Notes of a Publicist” appears in St.Petersburg.The C.C. of the R.S.D.L.P. elects Lenin Editorin-Chiefof the Party’s Central Organ Sotsial-Demokrat.Lenin writes two articles on the subject of “TheInternational Socialist Congress in Stuttgart”.One of them, a popular article, was written for theBolshevi publication Kalendar dlya vsekh, 1908.Lenin edits the Russian translations of the reportsto the International Socialist Congress in Stuttgartmade by the Austrian Social-DemocraticParty and the Italian Socialist Party.Lenin prepares for the press a three-volume editionof his works entitled Twelve Years.Lenin makes a report on the International SocialistCongress in Stuttgart to the St. PetersburgCity Conference of the R.S.D.L.P.